shoot blanks

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Paul Frank <paulfrank at post.harvard.edu> wrote:
> If Google is any indication, the expression "to shoot blanks" is much
> more common than "to fire blanks" in this sense.
>

FWIW, I've never some across "*fire* blanks" till now.

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